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Tips about take-out
Dec. 31st, 2011 07:34 pmWe eat out a lot, and lunch take-outs may spend hours in the car while we do other errands, then the hour-plus drive home. Then by default they go in the freezer.
TIPS:
To avoid those big styrofoam 'boxes' (or any big floppy 'boxes'), for wet soupy stuff we ask for a 'soup cup'.
For most stuff I keep plastic bags in my purse, the 'slider' kind, quart size (Hefty brand usually).
To remember I've GOT a take-out, I pull a colored ribbon out of my purse and tie it around the purse handle.
Labeling the container is easier at the restaurant table, so I also keep in my purse a little felt tip marker, medium point.
For our long drives, in the car we have a little cooler that runs off the cigarette lighter. Bags and 'soup cups' fit in it on top of Himself's cold drinks, though the big 'boxes' don't. (This cooler used to run the battery down but Himself found some gadget that only runs it when the motor is on.)
At home the take-out goes straight into the porch fridge freezer door where it's easy to see and retrieve. No letting it sit in the fridge section thinking we'll use it immediately, which doesn't happen. Unless it's something special....
Since take-outs tend to pile up unused, none of them go into the big freezer in the pantry, or the small freezer compartment of the kitchen fridge.
We carry home only the best and/or more expensive parts of a meal. No plain starch such as rice, pasta, bread. (Get good marks in an Asian restaurant saying, "No thanks, I cook rice fresh at home.")
QUESTIONS:
Need to focus on using these up faster. Trouble is it takes thought to remember just what's in the take-out (even if labeled) and what else I'd need to fix to go with it, etc. And all this while holding the freezer door open and getting cold.
Maybe some sort of plastic bag curtain over the main freezer compartment while looking at what's in the door?
Or a resolve to grab and be surprised?
Is it rude to offer such a take-out to a neighbor? Unsanitary?
TIPS:
To avoid those big styrofoam 'boxes' (or any big floppy 'boxes'), for wet soupy stuff we ask for a 'soup cup'.
For most stuff I keep plastic bags in my purse, the 'slider' kind, quart size (Hefty brand usually).
To remember I've GOT a take-out, I pull a colored ribbon out of my purse and tie it around the purse handle.
Labeling the container is easier at the restaurant table, so I also keep in my purse a little felt tip marker, medium point.
For our long drives, in the car we have a little cooler that runs off the cigarette lighter. Bags and 'soup cups' fit in it on top of Himself's cold drinks, though the big 'boxes' don't. (This cooler used to run the battery down but Himself found some gadget that only runs it when the motor is on.)
At home the take-out goes straight into the porch fridge freezer door where it's easy to see and retrieve. No letting it sit in the fridge section thinking we'll use it immediately, which doesn't happen. Unless it's something special....
Since take-outs tend to pile up unused, none of them go into the big freezer in the pantry, or the small freezer compartment of the kitchen fridge.
We carry home only the best and/or more expensive parts of a meal. No plain starch such as rice, pasta, bread. (Get good marks in an Asian restaurant saying, "No thanks, I cook rice fresh at home.")
QUESTIONS:
Need to focus on using these up faster. Trouble is it takes thought to remember just what's in the take-out (even if labeled) and what else I'd need to fix to go with it, etc. And all this while holding the freezer door open and getting cold.
Maybe some sort of plastic bag curtain over the main freezer compartment while looking at what's in the door?
Or a resolve to grab and be surprised?
Is it rude to offer such a take-out to a neighbor? Unsanitary?
